Word: costs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...know about Wall Street. Now the present condition of business in Wall Street is unsatisfactory. Business men and capitalists are not making much money, and the future outlook is poor. Two reasons are given: over-production; and extravagance, luxurious living, and expenditure of savings--in other words, the high cost of living, and the cost of high living. Business men ascribe the depression to the latter, but the former is more nearly correct...
...there a high cost of living? To understand this one must review the economic history of the country since the Civil War. The universal tendency has been to combine and form monopolies. Railroads, industrial corporations, and public-utility organizations have all joined into communities of interest, and have consolidated, usually by owning one another's stocks. Now what is the force at work to bring about trusts and combines in spite of all adverse legislation...
...real estate for others. They can be formed very easily, and are required to deposit certain sums with the government. The Comptroller's duty is to supervise them. The advantages of the system are that it supplies a uniform currency and a market for government bonds; it reduces the cost of exchange; provides safe banking facilities, and acts as a model for the state banks...
Lacrosse shows the greatest increase in expenditure. This was due to the team's having for the first time a training table. A further outlay was necessitated by the inauguration of Freshman lacrosse and association football teams. The cost of the latter sport increased and will probably continue to do so, for it is the desire of the athletic authorities to make it more general...
...plan would supplement the work of the Price Greenleaf Fund and the other "aids" which the Faculty employs to assist men who are working their way through College. In addition to this, by doing away with the advertising and the duplication of work incident to a competitive system, the cost of tutoring would be substantially reduced. A defect,--at least from a pedagogical point of view--of most existing tutoring is its dependence upon printed notes. A seminar in which the men themselves are forced to take notes is perhaps a more arduous, but certainly a more wholesome...